Quotes by
Charlotte Brontë |
1816-1855 , English novelist & poet
She is known for her novel Jane Eyre, which she published under a male pseudonym in 1847. The novel revolutionised prose fiction, being the first to focus on the moral and spiritual development of its protagonist through an intimate first-person narrative. She was the oldest of the 3 Brontë sisters who wrote masterpieces(Emily: Wuthering Heights, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall).
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Quotations
| • | I would always rather be happy than dignified. 4 |
| • | There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort. 4 |
| • | Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. 3 |
| • | Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves. 2 |
| • | I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. 2 |
| • | Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive. 2 |
| • | I am not an angel, I asserted; and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. 1 |
| • | Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes. 1 |
| • | Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. 1 |
| • | I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. 1 |
| • | Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank. 1 |
| • | The shadows are as important as the light. 1 |
| • | What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself. 1 |
